A rich book in which it is a pleasure to become absorbed -- Claire Tomalin * Independent on Sunday *
Wonderfully full-blooded . . . A brilliant idea . . . superbly enjoyable material, much of it unfamiliar, all of it stimulating -- Philip Horne * Guardian *
Compelling . . . not an addition to the pile of "chronicle" biographies of Henry James . . . [The opening] is unforgettable, like a scene from a film . . . [This book] combines scholarly rigour with a nice line in nineteenth-century gothic -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph *
Gordon's approach to biography is imaginative and risky . . . The result is a magnificent, important book, which points the way forward for the whole biographical genre -- Kathryn Hughes * Literary Review *
'A rich book in which it is a pleasure to become absorbed' -- Claire Tomalin * Independent on Sunday *
'Wonderfully full-blooded . . . A brilliant idea . . . superbly enjoyable material, much of it unfamiliar, all of it stimulating' -- Philip Horne * Guardian *
'Compelling . . . not an addition to the pile of "chronicle" biographies of Henry James . . . [The opening] is unforgettable, like a scene from a film . . . [This book] combines scholarly rigour with a nice line in nineteenth-century gothic' -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph *
'Gordon's approach to biography is imaginative and risky . . . The result is a magnificent, important book, which points the way forward for the whole biographical genre' -- Kathryn Hughes * Literary Review *
